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The John B Rosenthal Foundation at a glance

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The John B Rosenthal Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MCommunity Improvement$1.0MYouth Development$506kHealth$306kCrime & Legal$300kArts & Culture$280kEmployment$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $805k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$800,000
HAVEN OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY INC$155,000
SHARING EXCESS INC$150,000
JUVENILE LAW CENTER$150,000
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$150,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC$100,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
PLAY ON PHILLY$50,000
TREE HOUSE BOOKS$45,000
FRESH ARTISTS$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $100k → 11%PROJECT HOME: $40k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $35k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $15k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $11k → 22%PEOPLES'S EMEGENCY CENTER: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 15 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +99%
  • HP
    HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +167%
  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE & OPPORTUNITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $306k · revenue +153% · 84% of their budget

Funded once

  • MT
    MAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -52% · 42% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $196k · revenue +33%
  • TP
    THE PENNROSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0% · 32% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
3
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
4
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
5
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
8
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
9
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
10
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
11
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
12
Philadelphia Electrical & Technology Cha

The mission of the philadelphia electrical and technology charter high school is to develop students who will be employable in the emeraging high-tech industries; while giving students a strong foundation in the core academic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopephl; the most unlike its peers is Make the World Better Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF P…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $49,000 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,100,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHA…HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $380,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIACOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $235,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $130,000 · EducationTREE HOUSE BOOKSMIGHTY WRITERS: $125,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $37,500 · EducationMAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAKE THE WORLD BET…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $196,400 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…HAVEN OF HOPE & OPPORTUNITY INC: $306,250 · OtherHAVEN OF H…FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES: $45,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF…STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $30,000 · OtherSHARING EXCESS: $150,000 · OtherSHARING EX…ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $110,000 · OtherED SNIDER …JUVENILE LAW CENTER: $300,000 · Crime & LegalPLAY ON PHILLY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $85,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH ARTISTS: $70,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HOME: $125,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHOPEPHL: $36,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,399,000Education$2,107,500Youth Development$1,196,400Other$641,250Crime & Legal$300,000Arts & Culture$280,000Human Services$261,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,350,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,100,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $380,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE & OPPORTUNITY INC: $306,250 over 2y, 84% of budgetJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $300,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $235,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $196,400 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $130,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $125,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $110,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH ARTISTS: $70,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PENNROSE FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAUREL HILL AND WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERIES: $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED INSTRUCTION: $37,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPEPHL: $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…United Way of Greater…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Claneil Foundation IncUnion Benevolent Asso…Pincus Family Foundat…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Patricia Kind Fam…Connelly FoundationThe Vert Charitable T…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Claneil Foundation Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Pincus Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Vert Charitable Trust UA 12222011

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John B Rosenthal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John B Rosenthal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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